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Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” Clocks 50

Posted by Guest Author on February 26, 2008
Filed in: Africa, Discussion Lounge, Life & Culture, Nigeria, People

“A perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize and winner last year of the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement in fiction”, Associated Press writes about the Chinua Achebe, the author of “Things Fall Apart” a novel that “has been translated into more than 30 languages and sales top 10 million copies. No book by [...]

CYPRIAN EKWENSI (1921 - 2007): Fare Thee Well

Posted by Omotaylor on November 6, 2007
Filed in: Arts & Entertainment, Discussion Lounge, Literature, Nigeria
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Cyprian Ekwensi popular and prolific Nigerian fictional writer/poet dies at 86.